Guwahati/Agartala: Normal train services resumed on Sunday in Assam's Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section after the regular train services remained disrupted since Thursday following the derailment of a loaded goods waggon, officials said.
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that after the repair of the railway track inside a tunnel near Mupa, trial runs with light engines and goods trains were conducted on Saturday to ensure 100 percent safety.
After the derailment of a loaded goods waggon on Thursday afternoon (October 31), efforts were undertaken by the railway engineers, officials, and workers to restore the movement of regular train service between Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, southern Assam, and the rest of the country via Guwahati," he said.
"After ascertaining 100 percent safety, regular passenger train movement began from Sunday morning," the CPRO said.
Sharma said that the passenger and goods train services in the hill section had to be suspended since Thursday afternoon (October 31) due to the derailment of a loaded waggon of one goods train inside a tunnel. According to railway officials, more than a dozen trains continue to remain cancelled on the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section till Saturday, while some others are either partially cancelled or rescheduled.
A waggon of the Silchar-bound goods train carrying food grains from northern India derailed inside a tunnel near Mupa in the Lumding-Badarpur Hill Section of Southern Assam's Dima Hasao district on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier, the normal train services were affected on October 17 and 18, when six coaches, an engine, and the power car of the Mumbai-bound Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express derailed on the same Lumding-Badarpur Hill section.
Notably, many Express, local, and goods trains connecting Manipur, Southern Assam, Tripura, and Mizoram pass through the single track of the Lumding-Badarpur Hill section under the mountainous Dima Hasao district.
People of southern Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, and Manipur bear the brunt of floods during the monsoon every year, while the railway tracks, stations, and other infrastructure get damaged due to flooding and landslides during the four-month-long monsoon from June to September. (IANS)
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